Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-06

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,ould be made out. There was more, but it
mas only inroberant uounderinp The name
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ana o.ce tne n''Ile vi HuSeiIy' anu Vne
word 'br2ther." The tramp was onhls last
legs But at the end of this strange story
there were several legal looking documents.
One was to The effect that in such year a
male child, four or five years old, parentage
unknown, was found alone in a room with
dead man, recognized as burglar. The child
was taken te the st. HildegarJie asylum and
afterwalri adopted by John and Frances
Edgcrly of f}roomshire.
It's lie exclaimed Robert Edgerly.
There's some Internal mistake about it, |
don't believe word Of it,"
Wait" said Shirley Write to your
f2ther, and tell him about it. L know a
strange story, about two boys, twin brothers,
who were stolen from their home"
But Robert had not so long to wait. When
events do begin to happen, they come in
olsh. IL Y as not ad day later when the young
nan got this letter:
my DEAR SONNY health is failing,
more rapidly than you think for | want
CON and Brownie TO come home and stay
with me tha rest of my time.
There is something on my mind to tell
2ou l ou.cnt to have told you before, but
iovcr could bring myself to do it, You would
know il after my death, at any rate. Per
1d2;s It may not be so terrible to you to hear
..be truth from me- | am sure my wife and |
enid not have cen more tendery attached
70 YOU if we had been your real parents And
10 son could have been more devoted and
tdUful than you always were to us; no son
cpIaid have realized more faithfully a fathers
Gnd mothers brightest, fondest hopes.
But, Robert, my boy, you were not our
own son. We were absent from home for
you, lonely stray little boy, in the st.
lIildegarde orphan asylum. None Of our old
friends knew but you were our own. You
never knew it.
"Nour parentaGe is unknown. The only
2lew is the forget-ine-not ring, found fastened
Inscription ana date inside, 'Myra, from
Philip, july, 1854. But am sure you came
ot gcod blood. When we found you there
was Srill that about you that showed you had
heen tcnderly cared for.
IL you'd spare myself forever the pain of
,elline YOU this. only it is necessary you
snoulC know you are not 90 DE my heIr. Inc
estate must go to a distant relative, now in
Australia. There is another thought that
gives me anxiety, now that | know | am
nearing my death. | have not been able to
save much for you from my income. In
truth have let you spend so much money in
my lifetime that there will not be much left
FOR you after am dead; And still, even that
csiuSes me less trouble than it would If i did
not know how capable you are and strong
never brought you up to despise work, my
son. In the New World, the land of prom
tse, ! know you will easily mako your way
But not now Now you must come home you
and Brownie, and come at once, to one who,
as long as he lives, must still call himself
"YeUr loving father JOHN EDGERLY"
The whole story was out. The American
brothers, of one blood, one race, one parent
age, and even that unknown.
Y, !. i1er9 was Dio" WHICH staggered i'ooer'
H. "a R,a,.,n;a o,,d Sh;r,ou od haon rood
-nr tbo letter. with their heads together. all
ut once. Roberts head dropped upon the
laf,l in front of him Shirley cnud not